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botte

British  
/ bɔt /

noun

  1. fencing a thrust or hit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Geno Auriemma stepping onto the court to spike a water botte, that helped them, too.

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2023

It was originally applied to the fixed outside step, the French botte, then to the uncovered spaces on or beside the step on which the attendants sat facing sideways.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

On the rocker of the cradle she saw a man's foot with the turned-up toe of a botte sauvage.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

Ha! children, me thinkes my botte remeves, Our tarryinge heare highlye me greves, Over the lande the watter spreades; God doe as he will.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

In one of the immense labyrinthine cellars is a botte for wine capable of containing five thousand litri.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

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